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Aside from its 11,649,000 native citizens, the state of Texas claims a number of honorary citizens, including Am Parseghian and Eva Gabor. The latest notable so honored is Spain's Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon, who received a visit from W.H. ("Dub") Jackson Jr., head of a delegation of 80 Baptists arriving for a tour of Baptist communities. "It is heartening in this day of skepticism," said Jackson, "to have [the Spanish] invite our folks to come." As a final gesture, Jackson presented His Royal Highness with a ten-gallon hat and cowboy boots...
...more traditional Balanchine ballets like Symphony in C (Bizet) caught on at every stop. Balanchine's Who Cares? (Gershwin) was a steady crowd pleaser, though in Tbilisi and Moscow a stomach bug swept the company's ranks, forced last-minute cast changes, and prompted one dancer to dub the work Who's Left...
Downey also married a model named Elsie (who appears with their two children in Greaser's Palace). He appropriated his wife's fees for TV commercials in order to finance his first movie, Babo '73. "I had to dub all the voices myself on that one," Downey recalls. One day he even shot without film because he was too embarrassed to tell the actors that money...
Even so, the most significant trials so far of Dubček's supporters took place in Prague last week-while Husák was vacationing in the Soviet Union. The 13 defendants, who were jailed months ago, were not tried on charges dating from the Dubček era. Instead, most were accused of more recent subversion. Their specific offense: distributing leaflets before the 1971 national elections that reminded citizens of their constitutional right to cross out names on the one-party list of candidates. Yet the real aim of the trial was obviously to intimidate Dub...
...fend off demands from hard-liners that he try the political leaders of the Prague spring. Two leading "ultras" are Vasil Bilák and Alois Indra, the Soviets' principal collaborators during the Warsaw Pact occupation of Czechoslovakia. Bilák and Indra reportedly favor punishing even Dubček, who lives quietly in Bratislava. He is in charge of the motor pool for the Forest Administration...